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THE 

BLESSINGS 

OF WAR 



-'By 
pfk. W. Ross 

Author of The Western Gate, The 

Whirligig of Men, Etc.; President 

The National Marine League of 

the U. S. A. 




published by 
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THE U. S. A. 

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Copyright, 1917, by 

P. H. W. Ross 
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FOREWORD 

Disciplined intelligence is mightier than 
disciplined docility. At the beginning of the 
war, the world was amazed at the perfect 
discipline of the German people no less than 
of the German army. Events have proved, 
however, that individualistic nations such 
as the British under stress will freely accept 
discipline with consequences still more ama- 
zing than the disciplined docility of the 
iGerman people. 

I believe that in America the results will 
be even more striking than in Great Britain. 
It is true that we have been somewhat riot- 
ous in our individualism; but at all events 
we do possess initiative and we are highly 
intelligent, although we may not be docile 
or humble. But when the hour has struck 



for self -discipline, self-control, and submis- 
sion to central governmental authority, we 
may be quite sure that the Americans of to- 
day will not act as did those of 1777, when 
Washington's little army of 3,500, ragged 
and unequipped, went running through the 
Jersey woods. Why? Because at that time 
federal authority could not command the re- 
si^ect of the people. Things are different 
now; and it is for this reason that I have 
written the following pages. 

My earnest hope is that this little story 
will animate the souls of all young men who 
read it; that they will gird up their loins, 
sharpen their intelligence, and stand to- 
gether for a great national movement, know- 
ing in advance what great issues are at stake 
for us of today and for posterity in years to 
come. 

The Author. 



THE BLESSINGS OF WAR 



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CCUSTOMED as we are 

to the phrase "the blessmgs 
of peace," let us occupy 
our minds for a while with 
"the blessings of war." It 
sounds anomalous, does it 
not? "The blessings of 
war!" We associate with 
war anything but blessings. We think of 
the dreadful sufferings of the wounded, the 
grief of widows and orphans; of shattered 
fortunes and desolated countrysides; the 
stagnation of industry, and the general mis- 
ery and despair and utter hopelessness of 






a war-ridden country. And yet, if we can 
dissociate our minds from the immediate de- 
tails of war, retain our faith in the ultimate 
goodness of God, and take a broadei* view 
of life and of the destinies of nations, we 
shall find that war has its blessings no less 
than peace. 

Our remote ancestors many thousands of 
years ago were taught that the Supreme 
Godhead manifested Himself in three forms, 
as Brahma, Vishnu, and Siva. Brahma the 
Creator, Vishnu the Preserver, and Siva the 
DestrojT^er. Each aspect of the Godhead 
was worshipped alike, each was equally ten- 
der and loving to the children of men, and 
each equally merciful. Siva, the Destroyer, 
was not the destroyer of souls, but the de- 
stroyer of bodies; he who laid to rest the 
worn-out bodies of men when life's useful 
harvest was over, that the soul of the man 




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might re-appear in another vesture for an- 
other career of usefulness and effort. For 
remember that though John Brown's body 
lies a-mould'ring in the grave his soul goes 
marching on ! And so true is this, so literally 
true, that the whole philosophy of life — its 
creation of forms, its temporary preserva- 
tion of forms, and the merciful destruction 
of forms — all this, I say, upon a little study 
and reflection, "jumps to the eyes," to use 
a familiar French idiom, and we begin to see 
and to understand. Thus fortified we shall 
have naught but a friendly smile for kindly 
death when our last hour comes and the 
"earth that nourished us shall claim our 
growth, to be resolved to earth again." Read 
Bryant's "Thanatopsis," you who fear death, 
and be at peace. 

About 750 years ago there was born in a 
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known as Manchuria a child who was named 
Teenuchin. His father was chieftain of a 
Mongolian tribe of considerable importance 
but by no means of paramount importance 
in that region. When the child was only 13 
years old his father died and he was called 
upon to ascend his father's throne and to rule 
as unruly a tribe as can well be imagined. 
For 31 years this young man waged inces- 
sant war with neighboring tribes and king- 
doms, until he was 44 years old. Practically 
all China, Tartary, Thibet, Korea, and in- 
deed nearly all of Eastern Asia came under 
his sway, a territory more than twice the area 
of the United States. He then proclaimed 
himself Emperor and became known to pos- 
terity as Jenghiz Khan — which means "Per- 
fect Warrior." It is interesting to compare 
the soldiers' equipment of today with that 
of Jenghiz Khan's troops. Each man car- 






ried a bow with 30 arrows in a quiver, a 
shield, and a sword. The army was mounted, 
and to each two men was given a spare horse. 
A tent was provided for each ten men and 
with this was supplied two spades, a pickax, 
a sickle, a saw, an ax, an awl, 100 needles, 
S'A pounds of cord, an ox's hide, and a 
strong pan. The horses were of the light 
wiry mustang breed, capable of great endur- 
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II. 



OR reasons not necessary to 
enlarge upon the Chinese 
Emperor's conquests led 
him still further afield. 
We find him starting from 
Karakorum on a most 
astounding series of cam- 
f)aigns. He conquered 
Persia, Turkestan, and Afghanistan; then 
he invaded Russia, and his victorious armies 
halted not imtil the banks of the Dnieper 
had been reached. Imagine, if you can, a 
territory nearly 10,000 miles from east to 
west, stretching from Budapest to Hong- 



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kong, all under the sway of one man ; imagine 
the distance of his armies from their home 
base of Supplies, a distance more than 
twice that from San Francisco to New York, 
and this distance traversed not only by no 
railroad but not even by anything in the sem- 
blance of an ordinary wagon-road. And the 
terror inspired by his armies was so great 
and the fear of his vengeance so abject that 
the people of a whole village are known to 
have allowed themselves to be destroyed by 
a single Mongol warrior* 

In one battle 160,000 men were killed. At 
Nishapoor in Persia, the garrison fought 
desperately for four days, but was finally 
overpowered, and not one inhabitant, man, 
woman, or child, was left alive. Upon the 
surrender of the city of Herat, which was 
besieged for some act of disobedience, the 
Mongols killed and burned for seven days 





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and 1,600,000 persons were massacred within 
its walls. No wonder that Jenghiz Khan 
was called the Scourge of God! 

And yet after recounting these terrors of 
destruction, I invite your attention to the 
blessings of war. 

How do we treat our mother earth? Do 
we not tear her bosom with the cruel iron of 
the plow? Do we not harrow her face ? Do 
we not dig and cut and roll and ditch and 
drain? And does she not laugh in our faces 
with her flowers and perfume, with her fruits 
and her harvests? 

"And they shall beat their swords into 
plowshares, and their spears into pruning- 
hooks." But remember: the plowshares were 
swords first, and the pruning-hooks had first 
their duty to perform as spears! And so it 
is with the harvest of nations. Before the 
blessings of peace can be enjoyed, mankind 




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must pass through the purgative discipline 
of war. For what does peace mean if not 
that which is not war, that which is not strife? 
Every enjoyment of peace is the direct re- 
sult of either our own individual strife or the 
struggles and strivings of others on our be- 
half. Hence it is not only our bounden duty 
but our very grateful pleasure to do honor 
and to express our thankfulness to the brave 
men whose unselfishness and valor in times 
gone by have made possible the peace and 
plenty that we have enjoyed. 




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III. 

7 HAVE instanced the Mon- 
golian invasion of Europe 
because on first considera- 
tion it appears so purpose- 
less, so cruel, so wanton. 
But nothing is purpose- 
less, and all things work 
for good. The Mongolian 
dominion, so far as Europe was con- 
cerned, soon passed away; but it was 
the means of awakening Europe to the 
fulfillment of her destiny! You know 
that it is the will of God that man- 
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the earth should be possessed by those of 
God's children (and all mankind are His 
children) who will make the best use of it. 
The history of nations is the parable of the 
ten talents over and over again. Those who 
make the best use of their opportunities are 
they to whom dominion is given. That is 
the real reason why God has taken away the 
dominion of these broad lands from the Red 
Men and entrusted it to us. So with Eu- 
rope 800 years ago. The capacity to govern 
and to administer wisely was latent in Euro- 
pean races but was not then developed. 
They needed a spur, an incentive, and above 
all a knowledge that beyond the confines of 
their own native states and principalities 
there lay a whole world of possibilities. And 
this knowledge and these opportunities the 
Mongolian invasion brought home to them. 
Soon after Europe was thus harshly made 




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to realize that there were other lands and 
other peoples on the globe, trade routes were 
established overland to Asia, and commerce 
began to thrive. The merchants of Genoa 
and Venice in particular became enormously 
wealthy, and so thoroughly were the advan- 
tages of Asiatic trade exploited that we find 
some four centuries later a certain Genoese 
known to us as Christopher Columbus set- 
ting forth, not to discover America, not to 
found New York nor to lay out the town-site 
of Chicago, but to find a quick way of reach- 
ing Asia, the land of the terrible Jenghiz 
Khan, the Scourge of God. You see, after 
all, there is a link between the apparently 
purposeless destruction of Jenghiz Khan 
and the occupation and civilization of our 
own country. 

A striking example of the blessings of war 
is cited by the historian Ridpath, in referr- 




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ing to the war between France and England 
for the possession of North America which 
was terminated by the treaty of Paris in 
1763: "Thus closed the French and Indian 
war, one of the most important in the history 
of mankind. By this conflict it was decided 
that the decaying institutions of the middle 
ages should not prevail in the West, and that 
the powerful language and the laws and lib- 
erties of the English race should be planted 
forever in the vast domains of the new 
world." 

Shall I remind you of what the historian 
meant when he spoke of the "decaying insti- 
tutions of the middle ages?" See how the 
German people, for example, by docile sub- 
mission to "Authority," relict of absolute au- 
tocracy, have plunged themselves into mis- 
ery; and imagine how intolerable would be 
our lot if "the decaying institutions of the 




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middle ages had been allowed to take fresh 
growth in our country." 
V It was through war that America was 
saved in the beginning from old-world des- 
potism; it was by war that we achieved our 
liberty and our independence; it was war, 
the fiercest and bloodiest war in modern his- 
tory, that saved the Republic and made 
North and South one. Today there is no 
North, no South, no East, no West; for the 
nation is united in upholding a single ideal 
— the ideal of democracy — that it may not 
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IV. 



T is no vain boast to allude 
to America as "God's 
Country," since to us is 
given this task and the 
power and will to do it. 
Was not the land of 
Canaan "God's country" 
at one time, when He 
chose that land as the theater for the 
development of monotheism from out the 
degradation of Egyptian idolatry? Did 
He not appoint a great leader, Moses, 
and a great general, Joshua, to take 
forth from Egyptian slums a few tribes of 




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Assyrian and Mesopotamian degenerates? 
Did He not by His all-wise selection of 
judges and prophets gradually train and 
shape and educate these people, now called 
Israelites, until they became a great and 
powerful nation? Not great and powerful 
as we today speak of power and greatness, 
as measjured by extent of dominion or magni- 
tude of armies and navies, but infinitely 
greater in ideas, in an idea, a conviction, a 
certainty ; namely, the power and presence of 
of the one true God. That was the real 
greatness of the Jewish evolution, and so 
broad and so deep and so sound was the 
foundation of faith laid by those Jews, that 
upon it was raised the superstructure of 
Christianity, yes of Mohammedanism also. 
The very spirit and soul of all noble deeds, 
of all self-sacrifice, and of all true effort on 
one half of this planet for over 2,000 years, 




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flowered from that planting. You see, 
therefore, that Palestine was God's country 
3,500 years ago because He selected that 
portion of the globe's surface at that partic- 
ular time for certain of His divine purposes. 

The destiny of nations is largely a ques- 
tion of opportunity, chance, fortune — call it 
what you will. I prefer to think of it as the 
offering of the ten talents, but we will call it 
fortune. Fortune, I say, knocks at the doors 
of nations no less than at the doors of indi- 
viduals. What have nations done with their 
chances? We are familiar with Grecian his- 
tory, its Spartan virtues, its Athenian decay. 
We remember Rome, its rise, the glory of 
its great empire, its decline and fall. Spain, 
too, had her chance. Let us see what she 
did with it. 

Any lover of natural history will notice 
how all the wild creatures of the woods and 








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prairies seek or create a safe place for the 
upbringing of their young. So it is with 
nations. The providence that marks the 
sparrow's fall fails not to provide for bud- 
ding nations. The nursery ground selected 
by the guardian of the race is generally an 
island or peninsula having a mountainous 
range on its landward side. England's was 
an island, Japan's a group of islands, Rome's 
a peninsula. The "Isles of Greece" is a 
familiar line, although the mainland of 
Greece, deeply indented as it is by great arms 
of the sea, is almost a peninsula. Spain is a 
peninsula protected on the north by the 
Pyraneean mountains. Into this favored 
land poured a wonderful tide of old-world 
civilization. Spain was at one time the ex- 
treme west of civilization ; in fact, the pillars 
of Hercules at the mouth of the Mediter- 
ranean were considered the end of the world. 





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Spain was to the Levant what America now 
is to Europe, and into her lap flowed the 
philosophy of Greece, the arts of Arabia, 
the commerce of Syria, and the rich civiliza- 
tion of Egypt. The world still marvels at 
the glories of Old Spain. 

For three-hundred years Spain gained in 
strength, and then fortune knocked at her 
door. Her opportunity came. By the dis- 
coveries of Christopher Columbus and his 
followers, the new world was laid at her feet. 
How did she acquit herself of her responsi- 
bilities? Did she try to do her duty to the 
weaker nations committed to her care, as we 
have tried to do our duty to Cuba, as we are 
trying now to do our duty to the Filipinos, 
as England has striven and is now striving 
to do her duty in the stupendous task allotted 
to her in India. Spain ground her Ameri- 
can subject races into the dust; she obliter- 





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ated the ancient civilization of this continent. 
And all for what? For greed, the insensate 
greed of gold. 

This is the great stumbling-block of all 
humanity. This is the crucial point of de- 
veloping nationalities, as it is of developing 
individuals. It is not that money is the root 
of all evil ; it is that the love of money is the 
root of all evil. And this applies to nations 
as unerringly as it applies to individuals. 
This is the test that God is now applying to 
the United States. How shall we stand the 
test? When I first went to the Sandwich 
Islands, then an independent monarchy, I 
was struck by their national motto, which 
was "The breath of the land is established in 
Righteousness." Paraphrased this might be 
expressed: The breath, or the life, the very 
existence, of the country, is established in 
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And here lies the strength of our Presi- 
dent. His is the voice of the Hebrew 
prophet, in all matters of serious national 
import calling the people to right thought, to 
right action ; or in the forceful vernacular of 
the present day, to the "square deal." Be- 
cause, remember, righteousness in its primal 
meaning does not of necessity imply piety or 
holiness; still less does it imply sanctimon- 
iousness. It signifies primarily the doing of 
that which is right, in other words, a "Square 
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OU have seen that the 
curse of Spain was the 
senseless greed for gold. 
Does it need any telling 
that the greatest menace 
to our own country at this 
very moment is this very 
same greed? Do not the 
revelations in each succeeding daily news- 
paper proclaim that very fact? It is 
by no means, thank God, that the virus 
of greed has spread over all the land; 
but how shall we, the "common people," 
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of infection. First and foremost, by right 
thinking and then by translating right 
thought into right action. The breath of the 
land is established in right action and noth- 
ing else. 

It is in the cause of righteousness that 
America has entered the war against Ger- 
many. It is in this cause that the allies have 
been spending their blood and treasure. All 
right-thinking men know that democracy is 
the very foundation of civilization, and that 
civilization in its ultimate expression is only 
the practice of righteousness among nations 
as among individuals, fwho dares to say 
that no blessings can cokie from a war for 
democracy — for the right ? We are not pre- 
paring to suffer hardships, privation, pain, 
sorrow, and death, for amusement. We are 
not entering the war "to make a Roman hol- 
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for our good alone, but for the freedom and 
future happiness of all mankind. "Greater 
love hath no man than this, that a man lay 
down his life for his friend." 

Consider the blessings that have accrued 
thus far from the present war. Already the 
German Kaiser and the Junkerism he rep- 
resents appear to have served, like Jenghiz 
Kahn, as "the blind scourge of God." The 
war they so wantonly started is acting as a 
scourge indeed. Russia, scourged to the 
quick, has thrown off her sloth, swept out her 
despots and bureaucrats and the corruption 
and filth that they breed, and is emerging a 
triumphant democracy in which men may be 
free to be righteous. Who can doubt that 
the spiritual awakening of Russia no less 
than her political revolution will permeate 
the world? In fact, the first tremors of the 
Russian upheaval had hardly subsided when 





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the reaction was discernible in Austria, in 
Hungary, even in Germany itself. No more 
than Jenghiz Kahn realized that he was 
opening the world for commerce and civili- 
zation by his monstrous atrocities did the 
German Kaiser dream what would follow 
when he launched his cruel blow for a "place 
in the sun." 

Those Belgians, those Frenchmen, those 
Russians, Britons, and Serbs who stood in 
the way, they died that others might live — 
that the peoples of the earth might live for- 
ever after without the shadow of a mailed 
fist over them. And what a blessing has the 
noble spectacle of their struggle been to us! 
Its reaction has been such that today we are 
preparing to suffer and to die if need be, not 
to get something for ourselves that only we 
may enjoy, but to save democracy for the 
happiness and security of all humanity. For 




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the first time in history a nation of one- 
hundred-million souls goes to war with no 
thought of material gain, but with only the 
noblest of purposes. 

It is often difficult, however, to separate 
material gains from spiritual. While our 
material purposes are now submerged in a 
great desire to serve humanity at whatever 
cost, the war is cleansing our system and 
forcing us to increase our efficiency and our 
productivity. From this quickening of out 
national consciousness much material gain is 
certain to result. 

Already vast opportunities for the in- 
crease of our wealth and the extension of our 
influence have been opened by the war, and 
in order to seize them we have begun to cor- 
rect pernicious errors, change obsolete 
methods, and fill long-standing omissions. 
Jenghiz Kahn was the indirect cause of the 





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extension of commerce between Europe and 
Asia ; and Kaiser Wilhelm with his thirst for 
world-dominion is the indirect cause of a new 
development of commerce in which America 
may be expected to take a leading part. 




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VI. 

OMMERCE is the vehicle 
of civilization. It was the 
adventurous trader seek- 
ing new resources to ex- 
ploit or new markets to 
conquer who first brought 
the message of civilization 
to every new land. It 
is through commercial intercourse that na- 
tions first learn to understand each other. 
America has a message of democracy, 
and little by little this message will be 
carried to other people by the means that 



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we are creating to enable us to seize the 
trade opportunities that have been opened 
by the war. Every ship that sails from our 
shores, although primarily carrying a cargo 
of our products to a nation that needs them, 
carries also some part of America's message 
of democracy. 

For half a century America has permitted 
her shipping to decline. Our goods were 
carried overseas more and more by the ships 
of other countries, and there was no room in 
those bottoms for excess cargo in the form of 
American traditions and principles. It is no 
wonder that the rest of the world has re- 
garded America as a provincial nation living 
within itself and uninterested in the life and 
feelings of other nations. It is little wonder 
that the peoples of the South and of the East 
regarded our protestations of humanitarian- 
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that some day we meant to "gobble them 
up." They simply did not know. 

When the storm of war broke we were 
without ships with which to serve the needs 
of nations whose sources of supply had been 
cut off by the military exigencies of the bel- 
ligerent countries. In the lack of ships 
many of our exporters lost whatever foreign 
business they had developed, and all suffered 
from excessive freight rates and in many 
cases unfair discrimination in favor of for- 
eign competitors. 

The war has largely foiled us to change 
this condition. With all our available re- 
sources we are building ships, and at last it 
seems that the American merchant marine 
will soon be re-established. With the means 
of controlling the overseas transportation of 
our products, the manufactiu'ing industries, 
dependent as they are for their growth and 




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stability upon the development of export 
trade, will employ more and more labor and 
produce more and more wealth. But above 
all, with our own ships we shall then be able 
to convey the true meaning of America's 
purpose to the people of other lands. 

So it seems that all the effects of war are 
not bad. In his wanton way the German 
Kaiser, like Jenghiz Khan, has given the 
world a scourging likely to result very 
largely in good. When the scourging is 
over, it will remain for the democratic peo- 
ples of the world — and among these America 
is chief — to see to it that the improvements 
forced upon us by war do not decay and 
make another scourging necessary. Prus- 
sianism, like a cancer whose fibrous growths 
reach out in every direction, has festered in 
the heart of the world, spreading its poison 
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until like all forms of evil it destroys itself. 
How are we going to prevent the growth of 
some new evil? 

Formerly men trusted Government to 
protect the nation from infection, either from 
without or from within. Surely the men 
who suffer and die have the right to expect 
this. Just as a father, having labored all his 
life, having denied himself rest and comfort, 
and devoted his energy to the upbringing of 
his son, has the right to expect from the son 
a clean and honorable career in justification 
of the father's strivings, so have the men 
and women who made the sacrifices of war 
the right to demand of the government they 
preserved a policy of cleanliness and honor. 
But things have changed. In the compara- 
tively brief interval of peace since the Napo- 
leonic wars, for example, there has been a 
tremendous development of education and 





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of the means of disseminating information. 
People have learned that no government 
which is not of and by the people is to be 
trusted. Witness Russia! They have 
learned to put their trust only in democracy, 
which means government of and by the 
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VII. 

MERICA seeks to uphold 
democracy, to spread it 
widely over the world, that 
eventually, in the ultimate 
development of civiliza- 
tion, every member of the 
human family may in fact 
as well as in theory enjoy 
the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of 
happiness. It is no small task that we Ameri- 
cans have assumed; it will call for much 
preparation, much striving, much sacrifice 
both as individuals and as a nation. We 
must be efficient to do it; we must prepare 





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ourselves for service — some in the army, 
some in the navy, some in commerce, some in 
the industries, some on the farms, some in 
the homes, and so on. One of the greatest 
blessings of this war, it seems to me, is the 
awakening of America to its mission of de- 
mocracy, and to the realization that we must 
have not only the will but the means to carry 
our mission forward. 

You younger men may think this rather a 
tame call to arms, devoid of "pep," emotion- 
alism, "Old-Glory stuff," and the like. It is 
purposely so. You remember the story of 
the crashing timbers, the dazzling lightnings, 
the burning fiery bush, and finally the still 
small voice — where God was. That's where 
the real "punch" lies; and it's in you, too. 
We all have some "God-within-us." You 
have. You won't disclose Plim by rolling 
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Uncle Sam can lick his weight in wildcats, 
and all that sort of talk. 

No, not that way. The God of Battle 
will be glimpsed by a certain steely glitter 
in your eye, by the steadfast set of your chin, 
by the grim closure of your lips. These are 
the few visible signs. Of audible tokens 
there are less. A barking dog won't bite ; a 
biting dog should not bark. 

Don't bark. It's biting-time now. 

Your real Godhead is within you, in your 
heart and in your brain ; and the greater your 
intelligence, the greater will be your love for 
all your country stands for, the greater your 
need for the discipline that will co-ordinate 
your individual power with that of your fel- 
low countrymen. 

Disciplined docility is good, as I have said ; 
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Never in the annals of time, nor in the 
history of any nation in all the wide, wide 
world, has such an opportunity presented it- 
self as is now offered to the heart, brain, and 
musele of young America. 

To refuse his enlistment in some form a 
man must be either a coward, a fool, or one 
so wrapped up in ignorant self-conceit as to 
be beyond the power of words to damn. For- 
tunately there are very few such men in 
America. Most of us are clear-headed and 
simple and direct in our thoughts. 

And thus face to face with my friend, 
the clear-eyed, clear-headed, clean-hearted 
young American, I repeat : 

Don't be afraid of Death of the Body; 
there's nothing to it and you know it; it's 
death of the Soul that counts. 

Don't let any one tell you it's a "disgrace 





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to be selected for conscription"; it is an 
honor, a compliment to be thus selected as 
one upon whose strength and manhood the 
nation leans. 

Forestall all waste of words by voluntary 
surrender to discipline. 

When God called Samuel, the little fellow 
said: "Here am 1, for thou didst call me." 
Not once or twice but three times did the 
boy respond to that call. 

Humanity, righteousness, all that is de- 
cent and proper, all that is worth living for, 
worth dying for, is calling you, is calling 
through our own "Uncle Samuel." 

What can you, dear fellow, what can ycu 
do, but leap from your bed of ease, like little 
Samuel of old, and reply: 

"Here am I, for thou didst call me!" 




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